Millimeter-Wave Radar for Rescue Helicopters

Author

Migliaccio, C. ; Nguyen, B.D. ; Pichot, Ch ; Yonemoto, N. ; Yamamoto, K. ; Yamada, K. ; Nasui, H. ; Mayer, W. ; Gronau, A. ; Menzel, W.

Author_Institution

LEAT, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS, Valbonne

fYear

2006

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A collision avoidance and warning system for civil helicopters in Japan has been developed. A real-time warning method was applied using an image fused from a coloured video, an IR sensor data and mm-wave radar measurements. This paper focuses on the FM-CW mm-wave radar sensor and the associated antennas, working at 94 GHz. Flight tests were conducted in order to detect power lines. Thanks to two different antennas, power line response was measured in vertical and horizontal polarizations. Maximum detection ranges are of 800 and 600m respectively. This variation comes from the antenna gain difference. Radar resolution is limited by the allocated bandwidth at 94 GHz which is 200 MHz. Comparisons were conducted on the ground with an integrated FM-CW radar working at 77 GHz and achieving 500 MHz bandwidth

Keywords

alarm systems; antennas; bandwidth allocation; collision avoidance; helicopters; image fusion; millimetre wave imaging; 200 MHz; 94 GHz; IR sensor data; antenna gain difference; associated antennas; bandwidth allocation; civil helicopters; collision avoidance; image fusion; millimeter-wave radar; rescue helicopters; warning system; Alarm systems; Bandwidth; Collision avoidance; Helicopters; Image sensors; Infrared image sensors; Millimeter wave radar; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Sensor fusion; FM-CW radar; Obstacle detection and collision warning Millimeter Wave; antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006. ICARCV '06. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0341-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4214-042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345237

Filename

4150134